Welcome to Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL)

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OWL is a compilation
of citations and abstracts from the worldwide scientific literature that
pertain to the science of ornithology. A major attraction is its
coverage of the 'grey' literature, which are not abstracted by commercial
databases such as Zoological Record or the Science Citation Index.

OWL
deals chiefly with serial publications such as periodicals but also announces
new and renamed journals and provides abstracts of other serial publications,
conference proceedings, reports, and doctoral dissertations. Papers
dealing exclusively with domestic and pet birds and their husbandry are
excluded unless they are applicable to non-domestic birds.

OWL
was previously known as the
Recent Ornithological Literature (ROL) or as Recent Ornithological
Literature Online (ROLO).
The scope of OWL will be more than just
the "recent" literature of ornithology. Eventually, the online database will go back 50 or more years to acquire
citations to the serial literature. OWL will proceed well into this century with a database of the current
worldwide literature that would be of interest to ornithologists.